lelio:First one was in Tukwila? They needed something to protect them from drive bys.

Been to the shipping container one, it's right across the street from the Museum of Flight * fits with the mostly factory/industrial feel of the neighborhood. And the staff is pretty friendly, or was when I went to it.

I recently visited family in Portland. Despite having lived in San Francisco, Seattle, and on two Hawaii'n islands, Portland is the one place where I have actually seen a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks.

Ego edo infantia cattus:I recently visited family in Portland. Despite having lived in San Francisco, Seattle, and on two Hawaii'n islands, Portland is the one place where I have actually seen a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks.

I don't get their marketing strategy, but in the Los Angeles area they often have a Starbucks within a block of a grocery store with an in-store Starbucks.

Izunbacol:DarkSoulNoHope: Hipsters in Asbury Park have done this on the boardwalk with their restaurants.

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"The Luxury" on the San Antonio riverwalk is constructed of the same.

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Ugh, that monkey looks a fark lot more pretentious and arseholeish than the places that the Hipsters in Asbury Park do. But still, it is a good thing to reuse these containers than have them rusting in some dump. One of the public bathrooms in Asbury Park is made out of old storage containers, it survived Hurricane Sandy!